Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Researchers examined clinical outcomes associated with delayed initiation of broad-spectrum gram-negative antibiotic therapy in a cohort of adult inpatients.

Gonorrhoea is resistant to nearly all antibiotics, but one commonly used for urinary tract infections (UTIs) may be able to treat drug-resistant cases. The sexually transmitted infection (STI ...

Gohil said the approach could be applied to antibiotic selection in other settings such as outpatient clinics, long-term acute care facilities, and nursing homes.

After prioritizing cough-related diagnoses from most antibiotic-appropriate to least, the most common principal cough-related diagnoses were URI (46%), sinusitis (10%), acute bronchitis (9%), and ...

Having stripped back its workforce, antibiotics biotech Spero Therapeutics continues to strip away its remaining pipeline. The latest program to be discontinued is SPR206, a next-gen polymyxin ...

A new treatment for gonorrhea shows promise, which is welcome news with global rates of the sexually transmitted infection on the rise and antibiotic resistance becoming more prevalent.

A newly approved antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections may also help fight drug-resistant gonorrhea, a new study shows. The medication, called gepotidacin, could become the first new ...

Antibiotic use and allergy risk: The study found that infants and toddlers who were most frequently prescribed antibiotics had a higher risk of developing food allergies, hay fever, and asthma ...

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea since the 1990s. Experts discovered that gepotidacin, an antibiotic currently used to ...

He says that to find new drugs to combat growing antimicrobial resistance, scientists must “look to more unusual or overlooked sources of antibiotics.” So the team grew the bacteria found in ...

Lariocidin hits drug-resistant bacteria where others fail — by hijacking the ribosome at a new site, bypassing defences, and opening the door to a new generation of antibiotics. Lariocidin ...